Improved fagot for railroad-rails



NITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

IMPROVED FAGOT FOR RAILROAD-RAILS.v

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 77,659, dated May 5, 1868.

To all whom it may concern Be it known tliat I, HARRISON ROWE, of Marietta, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Mode for Making up the Pile or Fagot for being Rolled into Rails for Railroads; and Iv do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in whichl Figure l is a perspective (abridged) view of the pile ready for rolling; Fig. 2 is an end View of the same. F-ig. 3 shows the form of a B-shaped or filling-in plate 5 Fig. 4, a reduced iigure ofthe rail, the difference in its composition indicated.

The nature of,A my invention consists in the form ation and application of a top and bottom plate expressly rolled wider than the intermediate iilling or pile, which consists of two pairs ot' old rails cut to length, laid on their sides, their tread in close contact, with two B-plates between said pairs, and with a similar B-shaped plate on top and bottom, forming a square pile, between the top and bottom plates, of iat and wider bars.

To enable others skilled in the art to make 4and use my invention, I will proceed to' describe the several preparatory stages.

First, for the top plate or plates A of the pile, a fiat bur of the desired Width and thickness is rolled out of hard granular iron and out to length. A flange may be made on each side of the under face of the bar A, marked a, Fig. 2, to lock against the outside of the flanges of the upper pair of rails, c, in order to extend andmore eii'ectually bind the parts together under the rollers, so constructed as to crowd the said lap or flange a over and into the iiange of the rail G. To form the at bar E for the bottom of the pile, I rst make a flat bar as follows: I take strong cold-short or neutral iron rolled into a bar ofthe desired width and thickness, cut to length for both a top and bottom of a pile, filled in between them with short pieces of old rails C, B-iron D, of good fibrous iron, of any shape so as to form a pile between the two plates. This pile is brought to a welding-heat and rolled edgewise into a bar of the desired width and thickness, so as to bring the cold-short or neutral iron to the outer edges, e, of the bar, forming the bottom plate E of the pile, Fig. l. This is to prevent the flange from cracking or tearing when rolled into a rail.

I use two kinds 0f plates fof ailing in. The

upper B-plate B is made of puddled iron. The other B-plates D are made out of crooked ends, cross-ends, old rails, or any kind of iron, mixed with puddled iron or otherwise. Fig. 3 shows one of those B-plates. Figs. 1 and 2 show their employment in building the pile or iagot, in combination with the two pairs of rails c c c c, with their flanges, forming the flat sides between the top and bottom plates, A E. This pile is subjected to heat and rolled out into rails in the usual manner. By substituting a steel bar for A with the proper flux the same pile could be rolled into steel-capped rails, and yet differ substantially from the Patent No. 43,593, in whichV a central pair of vrails are joined by their iiange or base with a pair above and below with their Aianges'outside, and the tread widely separated, using also a corrugated top and bottom plate made with twogrooves, leaving open corners and larger interior spaces,'not calculated to make a solid and uniform rail.

I am aware also that in the Reissue No. 2,697, in which are corrugated steel slabs (equivalent to my B-plate l) or form pieces, does not alter the case, differing substantially in combination and result. By my method of piling I do not only save the reworking of the old rails by blooming or reheating them, but secure a better consolidated head or tread, be it steel-capped or of strong granular iron, by means of my wider or overlapping top bar A, as I also secure a better flange and in every respect a superior rail.

l am further aware that various methods are employed in making up the fagot or pile; but I am not aware that my mode was ever (substantially) employed by providing an overlapping top or iiange, a, in piling for the purpose named.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The manner of making and applying my wider top and bottom plates, A E, in combination with the intermediate llin g, B O D, when made into a pile or fagot for being rolled into rails for railroads, substantially in the HARRISON ROWE.

`manner specified.

Witnesses:

JAIvIEs PARK, DAVID HARRY. 

